Carl Göring was born in Brüheim. In 1870, he took 3rd in the first Austrian Chess Federation Congress, held in Graz. In 1871, he won at Wiesbaden, Germany (+4-0=0). In 1872, he took 3rd in the 3rd North German Chess Congress in Altona, Germany. In 1876, he tied for 1st in the 2nd Middle German Chess Congress in Leipzig, Germany.

The opening 1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.d4 exd4 4.c3 is known as the Göring Gambit and to this day remains one of the most stark examples of sacrificing pawns in order to gain quick development. Göring played it against Wilfried Paulsen in 1877 at Leipzig and was the first to introduce it into master play. In Germany, he was both a professor and a philosopher. He committed suicide in Eisenach, Germany in 1879.

He was the only son of a rich landowner. He could live a materially ensure-free life as a private scholar and lived occasionally in Berlin, Bonn and Gotha. Goering got sick in 1872 with rheumatism, in the following years he purged appreciably into depressions.

We might chuckle at Goering's apparent lack of success with his brainchild, but note that the game with Paulsen was played in round one--and none of his other opponents gave Goering a chance to play it again.

Carl Theodor Goring
Said that life was unutterably boring.
He drove himself mental thinking about Hume's Mind Investigation,
Then chucked himself out of the fifth floor window of the Eisenach Burschenschaftsdenkmal in a bizarre act of self-defenestration.
He was 38.

In a few days time, (April 28th), 'twill be his 170th birthday: 28 April 1841– 2 April 1879.

King Death: <offramp> Technically that's true but dear Hermann was cheating the hangman. He was minutes away from what's known over there as "Tod durch den Strang". That would've been a whole lot more humane than what he dished out to so many others.

RedShield: < In February 1941 the Mosquito with two Rolls-Royce Merlin engines and a streamlined wooden fuselage achieved 392 mph, 30 mph faster than the current Spitfire.[17] It was used on all kinds of missions, including silencing Hermann Gōring`s Berlin Nazi anniversary broadcast on January 20, 1943, leading him to tell Erhard Milch, Air Inspector General that “when I see the Mosquito I am yellow and green with envy. (The British) have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops.”>

<Self-defenestration is also a method of suicide. In the United States, self-defenestration is among the least common methods of committing suicide (typically less than 2% of all reported suicides in the United States for 2005).[15]>

<In December 1840, Abraham Lincoln and 4 other Illinois legislators jumped out of a window in a political maneuver designed to prevent a quorum on a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois State Bank.>

zanzibar: <In Hong Kong, jumping is the most common method (from any location) of committing suicide, accounting for 52.1% of all reported suicide cases in 2006, and similar rates for the years prior to that.[16]>

Wiki again.

I see that it's sometimes termed <autodefenestration> as well as <self-defenestration>.

ChessHigherCat: <zanzibar: <In Hong Kong, jumping is the most common method (from any location) of committing suicide, accounting for 52.1% of all reported suicide cases in 2006, and similar rates for the years prior to that.[16]>

<Wiki again.

I see that it's sometimes termed <autodefenestration> as well as <self-defenestration>.

Autodefenestration requires far greater skill since you have to jump out of the car window while driving with your feet.

Speaking of jumping out the window, in my recent trip to Buenos Aires, I was working on my PC and listening to music with my earphones in my hotel room when I started hearing some faint beeping and noticed a smell of burning plastic. I called down to reception to tell them that one of the neighbors must have triggered the smoke detector but the guy said no, there's a fire and I had to walk up to the roof 2 floors up on the 10th floor. The stairwell was full of smoke and there was nobody else on the roof at all. I looked way down and saw the fire trucks and a crowd of people below and I thought, I hope these clowns aren't going to ask me to jump into one of those mini-trampolines! It's especially risky in Argentina because every kid is trained to keep the ball out of the goal, so they might deflect my path by reflex. Anyway, I thought hell with this, I'm not going to die here, and took the elevator down. Moral of the story: Never follow instructions in case of emergency!

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